A newly published paper by Blayer et al. in in the journal Cancer has stated that,
Worldwide, the incidence of prostate cancer has increased in all groups between ages 15 and 40 years and increased globally at a steady rate averaging 2% per year since 1990.
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Your sitemaster has long argued that it is perfectly reasonable for many younger men diagnosed with low- and very low-risk forms of prostate cancer to be managed initially on active surveillance (despite reticence on the parts of many physicians and many patients). … READ MORE …
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A new report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggests that younger patients had a somewhat lower risk for biopsy-based Gleason score upgrade while on active surveillance (AS) than older patients. … READ MORE …
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A new article in JAMA Internal Medicine has quantified (to some extent) how characteristics of clinicians affect the probability of older men being given PSA tests within the Veterans Administration health system here in the US. … READ MORE …
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A new article in the journal Nature Reviews: Urology is entitled, “The implications of ageing and life expectancy in prostate cancer treatment.” It’s an important issue. … READ MORE …
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And in today’s exciting news comes something that it is too late for most prostate cancer patients to do anything about personally (and which they can complain about if they did and they still got prostate cancer … although we’re not sure to whom)! … READ MORE …
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It is well understood that African-American men and other “black” males of African ethnic origin are at greater risk for prostate cancer (at least here in America) than are non-Hispanic “white” males. What has been less clear is whether such black males are conscious of that risk and take appropriate action. … READ MORE …
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A recent article in the Journal of Clinical Pathology reviews available data about the epidemiology, biology, and clinical pathology of “young age” prostate cancer, which the authors define as clinically significant cancer in men under 55 years of age. … READ MORE …
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A while ago now we first discussed research being done by Eric Feuer and others on what was initially being called the Cancer Survival Query System or CSQS. … READ MORE …
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We’ve all heard the age-related treatment recommendations of doctors. … READ MORE …
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The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has long argued that the use of testosterone supplements by otherwise healthy men as they age (as a way to try to maintain the vigor and libido of their youth) comes with risks, and that one of those risks is the risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Why is it that we seem to be so focused on testing for risk of prostate cancer in older men with life expectancies of < 10 years, i.e., men who are almost certainly at very low risk for clinically significant disease? … READ MORE …
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An article in this month’s issue of Nature Reviews: Urology has looked closely at a question of significant relevance to an important subset of our regular readers — Is prostate cancer in some way “different” in younger men? … READ MORE …
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A recent paper in Frontiers in Oncology offers us new information about the risk profiles of men initially diagnosed with clinical stage T1c disease in the USA in relatively recent years. … READ MORE …
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The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has been pointing out (on a fairly regular basis over the past 5 years) that at least some of our risk for prostate cancer (other than the genetic risks) may be affected by what happens to us in childhood. … READ MORE …
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